Listen, I only made the video so I wouldn't have to explain the triangle in person to anyone ever again.

Krackatoa looks like a a person who lives in your wall but cooks for you and celebrates birthday with you

Lol Scissors vs BIGGER SCISSORS really got me

I hope Krackatoa makes more of these videos explaining stuff like this, he does a really good job of showing examples and providing a sense of understanding

"He did a move and I don't even know if that shit was isocolese" so true bestie

Marv "the Sticky Bandit" Murchins handing out that neutral knowledge is what I'm here for!

I feel like every 3 months theres a new neutral video coming out and theyre all good which is good because theres always new comers but useless for me cause Im always playing rock

worth noting that you can also "win" an exchange when both player choose passive play, because you can do noncommittal movement as part of your passive / reactive play. Like, let's say you're in the corner and you just pushed the opponent out with FD. They choose to walk back and look for an anti-air or whiff punish, and you choose to dash-block. Now you're out of the corner. Both of you picked rock, but you won because you improved your positioning

Hey, a crossover between the two legends who taught me everything I know about fighting games. What a day.

He has strong “long-term Chorus class sub turned full-time who I owe my love and appreciation of show tunes and musicals that turned into great conversation starters with my future wife that I met college” vibes. And I’m here for it

I figured this video would be about the Machaboo article, but it never really hit me that most people who hopped on with Strive have never seen these concepts at all, even probably some of the higher level players haven't internalized the idea of the 3 act structure of neutral

I never thought of neutral as it's own sort of mixup triangle like this, but it totally is! Great vid. To go on a tangent a bit, Pokken is a title that's really neutral focused not enough people appreciate: A lot of people view Pokken as an arena fighter due to the Phase Shift mechanic, but in reality the game still has unique movelists, cancels, just-frames, a height system (more on that below) like any other traditional FG in the 2d phase, and It's best to think of that as Pokken's core. The Phase shifting acts as a anti-infinite mechanic that forces a return to neutral in the Field/3d phase (which itself is sort of an added buffer layer of neutral). But most importantly, since the shift from 2d to 3d is dictated by the hidden PSP guage filling up (3d > 2d shifts happen on any heavy hit, hence why it's more a added layer of neutral then anything else), and different moves will add more or less points (or even remove points) to that guage, iit also acts as a anti-flowcharting and adaptation rewarding mechanic and a sort of resource management system: At a high level, you'll be altering your combo composition to end combos right when the PSP guage is maxed out, so your combos aren't interrupted by a shift. Also, sometimes you'll intentionally go for a lower damage combo or one that's less safe etc to intentionally either built less PSP, keeping the other player in the corner and under pressure in the hopes of winning another interaction for higher long term damage instead of cashing out (so sort of like a reset), causing a shift and allowing them to get back into neutral; or one that builds MORE PSP to shift faster, if YOU wanna get back to neutral and out of pressure faster or to get the meter and health regen causing a shifts gives. The way the game's height system works also encourages neutral and more adaptive play as well: Height in Pokken exists not as a way for offensive players to bypass blocking, but rather as a way for either player to bypass and punish other moves in their active frames. Think like how 2H's in DBFZ can bypass and punish aerials, except like half the moves in the game have invulnerability to moves of specific height states, and there's 8 height states rather then the usual 3 or 4. In practice, this gives a defensive player more opportunities to get reversals or break back to neutral, but still retains height mixups, in that if you expect the other player is gonna use a move of a given height (say on wakeup, or as a meaty, or in the middle of a blockstring, or in neutral), you can try to use a move that bypasses it to punish, but they know you can do that, so you still have the mixup mindgames there. In practice, both the Phase shift mechanic and the way height works means there's way more chances to get back to Neutral and time spent in Neutral in Pokken then some other titles. There's also not as many "win neutral/end footsies" tools (though there are absolutely some)in characters kits, but part of that is just because Pokken is slower paced. Bottom line is Pokken is sick and more people should play it.

This is so helpful! Glad to find out about this video!

This dudes voice is smooth like Skippy

This guy's voice is excellent

It's important to mention that a lot of options can cover any corner of the neutral triangle. As it's shown in the video 6P can be done on reaction as an anti-air or as a preemptive counter-poke.

yo, we love to see the FGC supporting other FGC passion projects 😄🙌

Round starts in GG strive are a perfect example on how the RPS decision making works in this game. Unless you are playing against Nago (I 90% chooose rock on Round start against Nagos just because the Risk/Reward is too big in Nago's favor)

Every time I think to myself that I've reached the limits of my neuch, I see a video like this and realize just how much I still can improve.

Watched the original a few days ago it's so good.

now we get to start talking about mental stack

great video

I saw neutral.mp4 and thought it was going to be a Faust-flavored ricken clip

Krack is my favorite FGC teacher

A fun example is when you run and block, to bait your opponent. They're preempting you, so you feint establish offence for a moment so they think they'll win and then you get them with the passive play.

I'm surprised you didn't link to the article in the description too, would be helpful for people who haven't read alot of the stuff you cover to jump right into it.

This triangle is somewhat part of the reason why i kinda like playing the Ryus of the game more than other more specialist characters personally. Their options always have decent risk/reward in each part of the neutral so it feels very free-flowing to play neutral even if it can sometimes put a lot of stress on you to vary your options. That's just me though, i actually really enjoy playing against axl even if he wants me to suffer.

that's why i like to play Urien

This seems like Sansukumi rushdown\whiffpunish/keepout that "that blasted salami" put out a video on in 2021. I like that video is good.

I love this guy

Why does Krack talk so quietly 💀

fast 8 roll down on 4-2 into bottom 4, playing gork reroll on the waaagh set

Damn, I love Krackatoa

As a Ky player, the way you beat passive play is with the unreactable 30f Greed Sever

praise be krack

Good ol' Rock, nothing beats that~ Except mashers. Damn...

I tend to think of it more like this Preemptive>impulse>anticipation>… A preemptive forethought attack can’t work against someone anticipating an attack, but it does work against an impulsive attack that is disregarding offense temporarily to close a distance and attack, but where impulsivity does work, is when someone anticipates an attack, they’re waiting, hence launching instant offence catches them off guard

Instructions weren’t clear, I’ll just play against the CPU and cry for neo-rollback

Hey I watched your old video yesterday

Krack da 🐐 no 🧢

hi so I am a I-no player and my dash is ariel I always get 6p and lose all my momentum what should I do???

Holy shit his microphone is rushing him down.

well most of the time its a spider web and not a triangle cause of so maany options :)

So in Street Fighter, would throwing a fireball be Pre-emptive? You're looking to hit somebody dashing/ pressing small buttons / The "Establishing" pillar? And by that logic, the way to beat fireballs is with the Passive Pillar? Do I have this right

I need this for SF6 please!

Did anyone else notice how filthy that door handle is!! My dude needs a mr. clean dry eraser

Rock propaganda? Rock is a 0 frame start up. It truly is in a tier of its own

I need my vampire survivors fix

It's a new Diaphone video

B I G G E R S C I S S O R S

I thought you best passive play with setup. You know, throw a slow projectile, set a trap, build meter, and, in Faust's case, item toss. Ik that not every character has these options but to be fair champs without a dash also can't do something like run up 2k.

The thumbnails are becoming exceedingly more broken

Why is this guy whispering into the mic?

then we have HC who gives a f. bout the triangle cuz counters everything at fullscreen

BAH HAAAA PRISTIME

That guy needs to pay more attention to his bedroom than playing guilty gear. Looks disgusting, I can smell it through my phone.

This was an annoying video about someone else annoying video. Why does so many talk so annoying and bad